Brown Technology Innovations

Chris has 25+ years of experience in advancing biomedical technologies. He is Regional Innovation Officer for the MDM2 Consortium in Phoenix and Managing Director of Xcellerant Ventures, Arizona’s HealthTech-focused VC fund. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Chris has founded and led companies in oncology, cognitive computing, and personalized medicine. He actively supports startups through Yoo & Co Accelerators and mentorship at ASU, where he also teaches molecular diagnostics, bioengineering, and entrepreneurship. Chris holds a Ph.D. from Yale, completed a postdoc at UC Berkeley, and earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has also worked with Cisco, Oracle, and IBM on early personalized medicine strategies.